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by audunw 1y ago
8 years is a pretty short perspective. The current growth phase was unlocked by more engineering. We could’ve had some of these kinds of capabilities decades ago, as illustrated by how cutting edge AI research is now trickling down all the
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by audunw 1y ago
Even Loris Cro one of the Zig core members, mentioned in a very recent interview that he’ll wait for all the fallout of the IO changes to settle before updating and continuing work on his project using Zig. The future looks bright after tha
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by audunw 1y ago
I’m not so sure debris would help take down other satellites in that orbit. The orbit is very low so much of the debris that ends up with a deviation in its orbit will fall down. Even if it doesn’t there’s still air resistance up there whic
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by audunw 1y ago
Is eating plenty of carbs to have good performance during exercise a “free lunch”? It’s more like it’s just optimising what you eat to give the body what it needs during exercise, no? Creatine is pretty much in that category. It’s just a na
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by audunw 1y ago
The problem is confusing intelligence and agency. The doomer position seems to assume that super intelligence will somehow lead to an AI with a high degree of agency which has some kind of desire to exert power over us. That it will just be
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by audunw 1y ago
I really don’t agree with the idea that this is functional colouring. Then we have to start talking about function colouring in a whole bunch of new contexts like with Zigs explicit passing of allocator. Or any other parameter that needs to
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by audunw 1y ago
It’s hard to judge before stackless coroutines are reintroduced. But I think you’re entirely wrong that the next version of it will have colored functions, even according to your definition. It has been mentioned that it’s possible that the
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by audunw 1y ago
Your preference to have them be compile time generic shouldn’t come at the cost of those that would want runtime virtualisation. As the article concludes, you get the best of both worlds here, where the result is effectively compile time ge
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by audunw 1y ago
I would recommend reading or watching what Tony Seba has put out. He has correctly predicted where we ended up with solar, and his predictions for the next stage of the energy transition is very remarkable and uplifting. It seems overly opt
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by audunw 1y ago
There are several scenarios where it would contribute: 1. You have access to a charger at work 2. You’re retired 3. You take public transportation or bike to work (fairly common scenario in Europe) 4. Work-from-home (got more common after c
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by audunw 1y ago
I only skimmed the article but there didn’t seem to be much written about how much of that non-electric fossil fuel is waste heat. I know there are versions of the energy source-sink graph which shows wasted energy. Why didn’t the author us
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by audunw 1y ago
Good point that people generally don’t fill up their cars in their home. Though I know people have really hurt them selves trying to use gasoline to ignite a bonfire and such. Gasoline fumes are extremely dangerous Battery fires are not hot
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by audunw 1y ago
I think this may cause a lot of other petroleum products to become more expensive, perhaps even uneconomical. Take bitumen. It hos already gotten progressively more expensive over the last few decades. It makes sense: car fuel economy has g
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by audunw 1y ago
As a technology, I love nuclear power. But I don’t think it’s the way to decarbonise the world in the short term. If we look beyond just electricity, to transportation, industry, fertilisers, etc, it’s clear that full decarbonisation will b
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by audunw 1y ago
It’s a lot easier to engineer an EV truck to handle steep gradients without overloading. We see from real examples that EV trucks are by default much more capable of driving fast uphill. One part of this is the batteries. When you have the
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by audunw 1y ago
Yes, last time I read about a fire in that tunnel I believe it was the brakes. I don’t know how. Even if it’s an engine issue, I don’t see how an EV would be more likely to catastrophically overheat. An EV will generate a lot less heat for
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by audunw 1y ago
“now”? At what point has there been good accountability of secret services? Given what we know of their history it has arguably been even worse before. Perhaps some smaller countries have had secret services with an apparently clean record
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by audunw 1y ago
We have a tunnel nearby that was built with a grade that’s too steep. Every year there’s a large ICE truck that overheats, catches fire and shuts the tunnel down for a while. This is simply not going to be an issue with EV trucks. A fire is
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by audunw 1y ago
What are you talking about? Batteries don’t dump their energy in seconds. They dump their energy over many, many hours. The initial burst of flames you see in some videos is not the energy stored in the battery, it’s the flammable electroly
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by audunw 1y ago
Much of the discussion is buried in the various GitHub issues related to async. I found something of a summary in this Reddit comment https://www.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/1d66gtp/comment/l6umbt...
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by audunw 1y ago
This is a standard library change, not a syntax change I think the main big thing that’s left for 1.0 is to resurrect async/await.. and that’s a huge thing because arguably very few if any language has gotten that truly right. As the P
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by audunw 1y ago
I’m not sure what they mean by “traditional materials” here, but from their paper the COP is in the range of 1.3 - 6.8 depending on heat load which is similar to a modern household refrigerator. So yeah, it really does seem to be good enoug
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by audunw 1y ago
It’s really, really weird to comment on the efficiency of these devices on an article like this, without actually checking the paper being referenced. Like, we know traditional thermoelectric are inefficient. But that’s the whole point of t
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by audunw 1y ago
It’s really, really weird to comment on the efficiency of these devices on an article like this, without actually checking the paper being referenced. Like, we know traditional thermoelectric are inefficient. But that’s the whole point of t
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by audunw 1y ago
Very nice project, and I agree that the path to AGI is about architecture, not just model size. But this isn’t AGI. I don’t think we should dilute the AGI term to advertise projects/products. I feel like it’s painfully obvious that we’
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by audunw 1y ago
You don’t know that. There have been studies that have founder lower total system costs with renewables. See studies by Marc Z Jacobsen et. al. for instance. I know of one study that found fairly low costs with lots of nuclear. But it also
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by audunw 1y ago
> Also its only specific to some reactors that are on the rivers, the ones that are next to the sea doesn't have this limitation. Not true, I can find instances of similar issues for nuclear reactors by the sea. I acknowledge that n
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by audunw 1y ago
But I thought nuclear was supposed to be 100% reliable baseload that wasn’t affected by seasons in any way /s I don’t mean to be negative about nuclear power, I just feel that in recent years in online discussions nuclear power has bec
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by audunw 1y ago
I don’t see why I should care that the battery is glued in? It helps keep the battery stable with minimal overhead, and it’s still fairly easy to replace. Apple has even made improvements to make it even easier to remove glued batteries, no
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by audunw 1y ago
Yeah cause it’s completely unimaginable that a professional writer would use em dash /s https://www.nightwater.email/em-dash-ai/ I do dread the wave of AI slop coming our way. But honestly what I dread even more i

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